Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-05-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

TWENTY states OF the Union now hay,
"roor days. New Jersey had two OF them
BUFFALO has n citizen who staggers nm
dor the name of "Carbolic G. Maginnis.n
CurrINd to Schnaebcls-The will for
get all about you In two weeks; look n
No. '''" p"
LADY horticulturist OF Sanford. Fla.
mas over 100 varieties of roses in her gar
5en. 90"
AIN. TADrMA, the artist, has staircas,
ot solid brass in his new residence in Lon
don.
Mn. d. L. MOODY proposes to erect
missionaries.
AT Stockton, Ks, tho candidates 10,
ONCE being all women the men refused Il
SO 10 the polls.
MING MILAN, Of Servia, has taken u
writing plays and having them enacted or
the public stage.
DO stove-pipe hats promote badness, 4,
question now under discussion in tho
medical journals.
BISMARCK received on his birthday ro
Gently, a barrel OF beer from nearly every
brewer In Germany.
1T Is officially stated that Germany has
no intention OF proclaiming state OF
siege IN Alsace Lorraine.
lHE season OF the year the mathemati.
oian hkes best is summer; the milkman,
spring and tho gambler, winter.
NEW wire nail-making machine has
oeen perfected which is capable OF turn.
ing out 5000 wire nails per hour.
iHn price of crude oil In the Linn
(o') heldsh has been reduced 10 twenty.
seven and half cents per barrel.
THE Jews are rapidly acquiring land in
Russia, They do not cultivate IL them.
selves, but sublet az great profit.
ROSWELL Il. FLOWER has made nbou,
si,"o,Oo during the past year in coal and
IRON lands. He has gone 20 Europe TO rest.
AS things look now, II will bo difficult
Tor buffalo Bill' TO escape being knighted
at least before no comes back 10 this
country.
| COMMISSIONER of Agriculture Coleman
denies having said that olcomargarine wa,
frequently made of the carcases of dogs.
horses or swine
| a NEW cupola seventy inches in diamo.
Ter Is TO be built at Milwaukee, and bridge.
building works arc TO be at once erected
In the same city.
| A WOMAN living In the vicinity Of Jasper.
Fla, Is the mother of twenty-six children
OF whom twenty-four have grown 10 man.
hood and womanhood.
The number of slaves in Brazil has been
reduced from $4,000 in 1873 TO 7O0.OoO.
mono of whom are under sixteen years or
over sixty years Of age.
THE rails Of the sixteen street car com.
panics in New York would reach 20 Jack.
sonvilie, Fla, from the former city, n is
stated, II laid In continuous line.
1T Is a striking fact that all Of those who
nave Jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge
odlum, the only professional athlete among
them, was the one 20 lose his life.
The supreme court Of Kansas has dccid
ed that when woman marries she need
not take her husbands name unless sho
chooses. She usually chooses 90, how
ever.
An ivy-twined retreat Of English spar.
rows in the yard of Thomas Coz, of ALBANY.
Ga, yielded two bushels of nests and l64
eggs, when he concluded TO make raid
upon IL.
IT Is stated that there arc thirty insects
which prey on garden vegetables, nifty on
grape vines, seventy five on apple trees.
on small grain fifty, and shade trees one
hundred.
ENoIsH farRcrs are resorting 20 the
use Of barbed wire fences 10 protect their
premises from the depredations Of hunt
ers, who trample down the crops and de
stroy fences.
JUsT 80 long as the pitcher Of a baseball
club gets 1900 year, and preacher a
scant 5000 just so long viii there be good
pitching and poor preaching, says the
Western PiOpmaH
TREEPLANTrSG is alluded 10 by some Of
the young writer's nowadays as modern
idea, but there was more done in this di-
rection fifty years ago in New England
than there is now.
A FRENCH locomotive has just been
made with driving wheels eight aud one
fourth feet in diameter. The calculation
Is that speed Of seventy eight miles an
hour can be averaged.
| IODINE, hitherto known in nature only in
combination with other elements, is now
found in free state in the water Of Wood
hall Spa, near Lincoln in England. The
water is colored a decided brown by the
iodine.
THE consolidation Of all the gas compan-
les in Chicago and those Of the adjacent
towns has finally been effected and the
manufacture Of gas will now be concen-
trated in one corporation with capital oi
t25,O0OOOO
hhIhN III tNt FcpOFl8 indt OHmAn Olgua
the military head Of the Soudanose rcbcI-
lion, was dead, comes the report that he ia
captured. Apparently tho supply OF Os-
man Dignas, like that OF III Mahdis, is i'm.
| exhaustble.
Ir is asserted at st. Louis that jaw
Gould Is about 20 begin tho building Of a
model industrial village just outside OF
that city, the nucleus OF which is 90 be the
shops Of tho Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain roads.
IT is now the rule, according 70 "medi-
cal authority" not to abstain from drink
ing water, but TO take three and half
/ pints daily ;and large people must tako four
and bali pints. Tho next wave may be
something greater
ACconDiN0 60 NJ Lagnoau, n well-inown
physician, after twenty-five years Of ago
married men live longer than bachelors.
Among every 1000 bachelors there are
thirty-eight criminals; among married
men, eighteen por 1000
JUDorNe from floating newspaper para
| graphs, says the Boston Post, 10 would ap-
pear that Daniel Webster was chiefly dis
tinguishsd for making first class fish
ehowdei and 6shballs.
FRENCH experiments have shown that
nickel may be effectively rolled upon soft
steel plates, which are thus made as valu-